do YOU believe in the Doomsday Predictions?

Do you actually believe in the doomsday predictions? Will Dec, 21, 2012 roll by and we'll all still be here, or will the face of the earth be wiped clean? Did you give your money to that guy in California that was ripping people off with that fake May doomsday date? Post your thoughts here!Personally, it's all just a giant hoax.

Why should I? People have been predicting the end of the world for years. Yes it will come (for the sake of arguments, I'll refrain from inputting my own Christian theological-beliefs here), but man will not know the day or time....

I believe in it all...in fact, the earth was destroyed at the millenium (2000) and now this earth and life is just a figment of your imagination...LMBFAO....we are drifting in cyberspace and there is NO looking back!

Doomsday predictions are nothing new. My grandpa told me years back the the Jehovah Witnesses (I think it was them) were predicting the end of the world back in the 30's.

We had doomsday nuts predicting it would end in the year 2000. When it didn't, they said, "oops, a slight math mistake, it will end in 2001" and when it didn't, again they blamed faulty math and said, "It will end in 2007".

Now we have people saying the Mayan calender predicts the end of the world on the 21'st of this month. The Mayan calender ends there, not the world. But like so many things, you can interpret it how you want.

I always wonder, don't these people feel stupid when their predictions are wrong? They must not because they keep on with the inane, and always, wrong predictions. I'm betting by the end of Dec 22/12 we'll have more predictions for the end of the world..........LOL

For anybody who honestly believes the world is going to end on December 21/12, please PM me and we'll arrange to have you give me all your worldly goods. Since the world is ending, you don't need it...........right.

Now we'll see who, and how many, really do believe it. I'm not holding my breath for any PM's mind you......

It matters not how straight the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate;I am the captain of my soul.

When I was in Mexico last March, holidaying in the "Mayan Riviera" I saw this t-shirt and I should have bought it, it was hiliarions. Basically you a picture of two Mayan guys working on their calendar (big round stone with stuff carved into it) and the one says, "I'm out of room, I guess I'll stop there for now" and the other one says, "That's going to freak somebody out in a couple thousand years!"

It matters not how straight the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate;I am the captain of my soul.

All I know is there's a lot of changes taking place on this planet & the solar system in general. I'm in my mid 50's & live in the northeast US. When I was a kid, we generally had snow by Halloween & it lasted well into March. I remember plowed snow banks along the sides of the street being 6 feet high. And that was regularly, not due to some freak storm. Here we are in Dec 2012 & it's 64F & raining. And last year I was raking leaves on New Year's day. IMO, these changes are NOT due to human's burning coal & using hairspray. Something big is happening. The climate on ALL the planets is changing. A few examples:

Basically, if you plug any planet into google along with the words "climate change", you'll find that something is happening on a solar system-wide scale.

How the Mayans were able to devise an accurate calendar that spans roughly 5125 years is beyond my comprehension. December 22, 2012 is New Year's day for the Mayan long count. It probably means nothing, no different than our yearly calendar resetting on Jan 1st. Then again, the last time the long count reset is said to be 3114 BC or thereabouts. If you look into the time period around 3100 BC, you'll find there's evidence that something big supposedly DID happen. The earth began getting peppered with meteors from the Taurid Complex & "the peppering" lasted up to 100 years. There's said to have been direct impacts on land but most of the damage was due to water impacts & the resulting tsunamis. We're not talking huge meteors that are seen well in advance, we talking small ones, probably smaller than the one that caused the Tunguska Event in Siberia in the early 1900's.

There's been a dramatic increase in the reports of fireballs all over the planet lately. It could simply be that everyone has cameras, cellphones, etc & can immediately jump to facebook & twitter to report what they saw, or it could be that the number & frequency of fireballs is actually on the rise. There's also been an increase in the number of fireballs/comets peppering the sun & other planets. Once again, it could simply seem that there's more due to "heightened awareness" caused by all the doomsday hoopla, or it could be that we're in store for a "once-in-a-civilization's-lifetime event".

There are a lot of significant climatic changes, some which might be cycles, others man-made and others "cause unknown".

However, we have had plenty in the past but precious few that have happened on one day. I'm not about to believe in the Big White Rabbit just yet, but Santa is a different matter (it paid off when I was a kid).

Here it is Dec 4th and nobody's PM'd me. I'm disappointed. Maybe that's a reflection on us "geek" types that we are quite as gullible, or as alarmist, as some....I don't know. Honestly, I didn't really expect anybody to contact me with offers of all their worldly goods (although one can hope right) because they "knew the world was going to end on Dec 21st" Still and all, it's only been 3 days....we'll see what a few more brings........

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riider

Speaking of this whole "global warming" theory that some people believe in. I liken that to doomsday predictions. You're allowed to read things and interpret them how it pleases you. Me, I'm not buying that we (humans) are polluting ourselves into "global warming"

First off let me tell you, I don't mind global warming. I live in western Canada and if you folks down south think you know what cold is, you have another think coming. My wife is from the US and spent most of her life in Oklahoma. She spent a few years living in Northern Idaho and she thought she knew what cold was. Until we married and she moved here..........ROFLMAO. When it's -43 C/F (they meet there) with a 2000 windchill factor and it feels like -60, then you know what "cold" is and believe you me...........you find your butt outside on a day like that, you're praying for some global warming.

I'll be 50 next April. But like you riider I too remember much more snow as a kid. And not just because I'm taller now. We used to get more. I know, I used to have to shovel it until the ol'man bought a snow blower!

But I digress........back to global warming.

Fact: The earth has experienced several ice ages. So, as the ice age ended, would you not call what happened "global warming" I think so. Was it caused by humans? The only response to that is, "What humans?"

Fact: Large portions of north America used to be lush jungle as proven by the fossilized records in the ground and the oil we're presently harvesting here in Alberta Canada where I'm presently freezing my ass off as we pull into the very heart of yet another winter up here in the Great White North. What this tells me is we haven't "globally warmed" up as much yet as the earth has at other times in it's geological history. I refer you now back up my previous statements about enjoying a little global warming.

Fact: By taking core samples from existing Glaciers scientist have found that at several points in the past we have had volcanic explosions (think Pompei, Krakatoa) that have in a SINGLE EVENT, spewed more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all of humanity has in the last 2000 years. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Al Gore!

As I've said above, I do not believe the earth is going to end December 21st. In fact, while I know that at some point in a few million (billion) years the sun will burn out and thus all life on earth will freeze, I do not think it's going to happen this month, this upcoming year, or even in the next millenium. What I do hope is that mankind can find "faster than light" travel and get off this poor abused planet and start spreading out to the stars so that when the day comes when the big light up in the sky does switch off, it won't wipe mankind out and destory everything we've learned to that point.

It matters not how straight the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate;I am the captain of my soul.

"What I do hope is that mankind can find "faster than light" travel and get off this poor abused planet and start spreading out to the stars so that when the day comes when the big light up in the sky does switch off, it won't wipe mankind out and destory everything we've learned to that point"

But what if there is already life out there (which I believe is highly likely)? They might know a lot more than we do and could easily have made a better job it.

But what if there is already life out there (which I believe is highly likely)? They might know a lot more than we do and could easily have made a better job it.

I'm in total agreement with you. I believe there is life out there. Considering the size of the cosmos and the number of stars out there, it's only logical to assume that "if it can happen here, it can happen elsewhere too"

If they know a lot more and have made a better job of it, and we don't antagonise them into destroying us, they could help us learn how to do it better in the future as we expand outward and colonize.

I honestly believe that day will come when faster-than-light travel becomes a reality. I know people say it's impossible now but if you went back in time to 1920 and told those folks that supersonic travel would be cool, they'd tell you it was impossible. If you went back to 1820 and talked about man flying, you'd be told it was impossible.

I don't expect to see faster-than-light in my lifetime and probably not in my childs lifetime either. But perhaps in my grandchildren will see it, or their kids.

It matters not how straight the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate;I am the captain of my soul.

"But what if there is already life out there (which I believe is highly likely)? They might know a lot more than we do and could easily have made a better job it."

I also think it's likely that there's other life out there, but one of the things that's always puzzled me is this - why would the other lifeforms have developed so much faster than us? I mean, there was only one Big Bang (assuming that's how it all began) so shouldn't life have started & developed at roughly the same evolutionary pace no matter which planet/sloar system/galaxy it started in? Kinda like what Joe Pesci asked about grits in My Cousin Vinny: How could it take you five minutes to cook your grits when it takes the entire grit-eating world 20 minutes?

It seems to me the only reason there might be a significant developmental difference from one galactic lifeform to another would be if one species was completely wiped out by a catastrophic event & the entire process had to start all over again.

According to scientists, we had dinosaurs here millions of years ago. Then along came a big meteor and they were all gone. Then some time after they had died off, and another ice age or two, mankind as we know it started developing.

Now, assuming other sapient life forms aren't restricted to the same form as we are, who's to say there isn't a place in the universe that started developing dinosaurs (or something like it) at the same time Earth did where their planet wasn't hit by a meteor and most of said planets life extinguished. It follows logically that if allowed to proceed without interruption, there could be intelligent dinosaur type creatures whos culture is thousands, if not millions, of years older than ours.

Of course, like Cpt Kirk I'd prefer sexy humanoids and couldn't care less if they were green or blue....... ;)

It matters not how straight the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate;I am the captain of my soul.

There may have been only one "Big Bang" but not all stars ( and especially not ours) came into being at the time of that event. Our own star is much younger than the oldest objects in the known universe. Who's to say that other sentient beings (and the planets on which they evolved) have not run the complete cycle of their existence before good old SOL began gathering cosmic dust to form our planetary system. The universe is in a constant state of change and I live in the expectation ( if not hope) that life will be discovered somewhere other than the third rock. Good luck to the doomsday prepers. I chose not to let my life be ruled by fear of disaster. On Dec21 this year I will be cooking a BBQ for 300 workmates to celebrate the end of year festive season. If the end comes at least I'll go out with a full belly and surrounded by friends.

If you're certain there will be no December 22nd swordj feel free to donate all you own to me. I accept money orders for cash and have family in the US who would happily put me in touch with a good lawyer.

Just PM me and we'll get the ball rolling by me giving you my name/address so you can send me a money order or certified check from yoru bank for all your liquid assets. Just keep enough to get you through the next 10 days.

:)

It matters not how straight the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate;I am the captain of my soul.

EXCUSE ME! ! ! I've already requested the believers sign over to me their real estate, vehicles and ETC. in my # 4 above so I get first dibs. If it turns out I get more than I need or duplicate items, well, I'm a reasonable guy and I'd be willing to sell the surplus at very low prices.

I'm on GMT+10 and the pundits have said the Mayan calendar runs out at 9.00pm my time, which is just over an hour away. I will post again after then to celebrate our continued existence, but just in case........ I take this opportunity to say it was nice knowing you all.

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